Nobody has Shuttleworth amongst his acquaintances to submit the idea to ? :-)
Ahwell, just dreaming... Thanks guys ! On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 21:52, Jan Goyvaerts <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting... so, in theory, any organisation with sufficient funds and > expertise might actually pull it off to create a serious VM language. It > would be the right time for that. > > But I guess it would be risky to claim PL/2 happens to be able to use any > already existing Java libraries ? > > > On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 21:12, Kevin Wright <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Unless somebody had a trademark on "PL2", they might still come after >> you... >> >> >> On 9 September 2010 20:09, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> In theory, they wouldn't come, as that's legit according to the >>> license. You do have to give full credit and you'd have to release it >>> under the GPL as well. >>> >>> IANAL. >>> >>> On Sep 9, 8:38 pm, Jan Goyvaerts <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > I know there has been *many* messages already about last day events >>> > regarding to the future of Java. Although certainly inspired by it, I >>> have a >>> > question that is not about Java or any other language. So please, >>> *don't* waste >>> > this thread into something else. Thanks. >>> > * >>> > * >>> > * * >>> > Suppose I want to create a new programming language PL/2, whatever my >>> > reasons for that... >>> > >>> > 1) I download OpenJDK (I know it's great). >>> > 2) I rename every "java" into "pl2". (I know I can't call it "Java"). >>> > 3) I republish the thing as an open source project OpenPL2. >>> > >>> > How fast can I expect lawyers to knock on my door ? >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "The Java Posse" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> >>> . >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Kevin Wright >> >> mail / gtalk / msn : [email protected] >> pulse / skype: kev.lee.wright >> twitter: @thecoda >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "The Java Posse" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
